Counted October 19, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Medical Lab Scientist: $88K median posted pay.
From 8 salary bands employers posted on 52 open medical lab scientist roles in healthcare. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
| Level | Open roles | Median posted band | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid | 2 | — (2 of 8 bands) | — |
Levels as the postings name them. A rung shows a median only where eight or more postings at that level carried a band.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open.
| Employer | Open roles | Entry level |
|---|---|---|
| Easyservice | 8 | — |
| Vumc | 8 | — |
| luminishealth | 7 | — |
| Bannerhealth | 6 | — |
| Kansashealthsystem | 6 | — |
| Nebraska Medicine includes two hospitals | 3 | — |
| Denverhealth | 2 | — |
| GTI | 2 | — |
| Ah | 2 | — |
| Boys Town | 2 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open medical lab scientist roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Laboratory Science | 21 | — |
| Continuous Improvement | 19 | — |
| Laboratory Testing | 10 | — |
| Phlebotomy | 10 | — |
| Nonconformance Handling | 10 | — |
| Registered Nursing | 10 | — |
| Data Analysis | 8 | — |
| Specimen Collection | 7 | — |
| Database Design | 7 | — |
| Equipment Inspection | 7 | — |
Where the work is
0% of these roles are remote.
- Remote0%0 roles
- Hybrid0%0 roles
- On site83%43 roles
- Not stated17%9 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 52 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on October 19, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 8 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Medical Lab Scientist (Nights)” counts here too. 100% of roles with this title sit in healthcare, which is why this page belongs to that career. A title gets a page only where twenty-five or more roles are open, eight or more of them posted a band, three or more employers are hiring for it and four in five of its postings sit in one career, so no page here is a guess.